The Thief and the Dogs - Brossura

Mahfouz, Naguib

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385264623 ISBN 13: 9780385264624

Casa editrice: Anchor, 1989

Riassunto

Just released from prison, Said Mahran finds himself betrayed by the most important people in his life--forgotten by his daughter, abandoned by his wife, and rejected by his mentor

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Recensione:

"The incredible variety of Mahfouz's writing continues to dazzle our eyes." --The Washington Post

"[Naguib Mahfouz] is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a Mann, a Zola, and a Jules Romains." --Edward Said, The London Review of Books

"The greatest writer in one of the most widely understood languages in the world, a storyteller of the first order in any idiom." --Vanity Fair

"A Dickens of the Cairo cafes." --Newsweek

"Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form.   He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera." --The New York Times Book Review

"Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

L'autore:

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.

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• Editore: Anchor
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0385264623
• ISBN 13: 9780385264624
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160